Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-04


slow but sure. With but little force
at the outset they gain in weight and
momentum with time, gathering
strength rs they move for the work
OF overcoming obstacles in the way
OF the accomplishment Of the end
sought. Any movement that has
shown steady gam in strength for
many years can be set down as al
most sure to win. Like the oak,
they develop slowly, but with an ever
increasing strength that will finally
withstand the fiercest storms Of op-
position. The sentiment that devel.
oped with such mighty strength for
political and individual liberty in
America grew slowly but went stead
ny on and was as irresistible as the
tide. So with the slavery question,
the suppression of organized polyg-
amy, and other reform movements.
Other questions that were hooted at
and were targets for the shafts Of
rldicule, have, by slow but ever
increasing growth and strength, be-
come powerful and respected, and are
rising to the dignity of national po-
litical issues, which means that the
accomplishment of the ends aimed at
is near at hand. One is the question
to allow women the right to aid in
the enactment oflaws they must obey
to free America of the last rem
nant of "taxation without representa-
tion"-in short to remove the only
remaining shackles of political slav-
cry. Slavery to King Alcohol must
and will perish. The King has been
fighting for ages to hold his throne,
but his royal highness is tottering and
getting feebler every year and the
opposition growing slow but sure.
This King will lose his power COM
pletely some day and will be laid
away-will 60 to his long home, no
longer for slaves to roam. Labor has
been slowly gaining in strength for
many, many years, to be relieved
from a drudging, plodding slavery,
and to be freed from the crushing,
iron heel of King Monopoly. Labor,
the producer of all wealth, demands
something more than a miserable ex-
istence, and should, and will ere long
enjoy some Of the comforts of life.
America moves, and not backward
but always forward. One reform is
followed by another, and each is ac-
complished, not for day, but per-
maneutly. The greatest forms of
slavery have received their death
blows, and the remnats must meet
the same fate. 1t seems to be the
mission of America to Danish slavery
and Kings in whatever form. The
pages of our history are brilliant with
the shining records of liberties &C
complished, one after another, and
the bright record will continue with
no diminishing lustre. Any reform
that moves slowly, and shows steady
gain for twenty or thirty years, will
never move backward. Such has
been the history of America. Anoth.
er reform, we had almost forgotten, is
for the principle that the majority
shall rule, which is not yet an ac-
complished fact in our politics. The
people have been demanding for
many years that United States SEN
ators be elected by a direct vote of
the people. The will of the majority
is almost always defeated by the
election of Senators by Legislatures,
and money generally rules. 1t is an
easy matter for a brainless Million
aire to buy up few Legislators,
but when it comes to buying the
whole people of State the sack
fails. There are enough patriotic
citizens in a State to defeat the pow
er of money, and where it is used it
will in the end defeat the corruption
ist-he will lose more than he will
gain through the use of money for
purposes of corruption. The Senate
is made up of millionaires, while the
House is composed of comparatively
poor men, and better men than the
Senate is made up of, if we except
some of those able, honorable Sena-
tors and statesmen, and there are
those, who do not stoop to bribery
and get there on their merits. But